Sophie Hannah - Little Face

Advantages: Good psychological thriller
Disadvantages: none

...I recently discovered the author Sophie Hannah after being given this book as a present. I was hooked from the first page and read this in two days! When Alice Fancourt returns home after being out for the first time without her two-week old baby daughter Florence, she realises that the baby daughter she returns home to, having left her in the care of her husband David, is not Florence, but a baby she has never seen before! David insists the baby is their daughter Florence, and that Alice is going mad! Is Alice going mad? Or is David lying? And if he is, why would he do such a thing, and where is Florence? Alice alerts the police, but has no proof, and DNA tests are taken. Whilst waiting for the results, David's behaviour towards Alice changes, becoming quite sinister and Alice feels threatened herself, both by him and his...

JEFFJEN 11.03.2009 · Read review
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Hurting distance - Sophie Hannah

Advantages: A good Read
Disadvantages: I have to wait till next year for her next book

...Hurting Distance - Sophie Hannah I bought this book at my local Tesco on a buy two for £7.00 deal and it was well worth it. I'm an avid reader and have read about 12 books this month of all different types. I tend to pick books by reading the back cover and then the first page and if it grips me immediately then I can't leave it behind. The back of this book says "Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible she never told anyone" and the first page is an email she has written to a website called "Speak out and Survive"; you know then from the first page what Naomi's secret is, she's been raped. No I'm not giving the plot away, far from it, that's what I thought as well when I read it. I then though oh well; I'll give it a go anyway. The next chapter is about a man she is deeply in love...

Sgathach 30.10.2007 · Read review
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Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Another good read from Sophie Hannah

Advantages: A good page-turner
Disadvantages: none

...I have previously reviewed the first Sophie Hannah novel I read and thoroughly enjoyed, so thought I would now review the second. I must admit I was looking forward to reading this book, as I love it when I find a new author I like, and after reading 'Little Face' I couldn't wait to read her next novel 'Hurting Distance'. I wasn't disappointed, it was every bit as much enjoyable as 'Little Face' and another page-turner I could not put down until I had finished. A good point is that we are re-introduced to Detectives Zailer and Waterhouse and again we follow the sub- storyline of their chemistry and feelings for each other, which is a story in itself! The story is about Naomi Jenkins - a woman with a secret.....and a married lover, Robert Haworth, whom she is passionately in love with. Suddenly, Robert just disappears without any...

JEFFJEN 14.03.2009 · Read review
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Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella - Top REad

Advantages: A brilliant read
Disadvantages: none

...Twenties Girl ? Sophie Kinsella....... Laura Linington's life is all the place when the news breaks of her great aunt Sadie's death. Laura's boyfriend, Josh, has made, what Laura thinks to be, a massive error in breaking off their two year relationship and her new working partnership with her best friend in a head hunting business is up in the air as her best friend has met a new man on holiday in Goa and doesn't appear to be returning any time soon. So when the ghost of her dead 105 year old great aunt appears at the funeral in the form of her in the 1920's Laura immediately puts it down to stress. It seems however that Laura cannot shake off this stress as the ghost of Sadie Lancaster bullies her into stopping the funeral under suspicious death allegations. Laura's great aunt wants to find a necklace that belonged to her...

newby2 16.09.2009 · Read review
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Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Advantages: Excellent book, great story and main character
Disadvantages: None

...I picked this book because I have enjoyed a couple of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series and so hoped these would be a good light hearted read too. Lexi wakes up in hospital believing she is 25 with a rubbish job, boyfriend and dodgy teeth. It is actually three years later and when she looks in the mirror she can't believe what she see's - she has sleek brown hair, perfect teeth and a tanned, toned body. But more shocks are to come as she discovers she is married to a millionaire, now head of her department and lives in an amazing loft-style apartment. Lexi can't believe how lucky she is and is determined to throw herself back into this perfect life to help return her memories, but she soon realises that not all is as it seems as her old friends seem to hate her and a sexy guy turns up claiming they were having an affair. I...

starjen 21.01.2009 · Read review
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Sophie's Big Bed.

Advantages: Lovely illustrations
Disadvantages: Limited use.

...The Author Tina Burke lives in Australia and studied graphic design. She later trained as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studio in Sydney. The Book. Publisher - Puffin Baby ISBN 0-14-350193-3 RRP - £3.99 - paperback. The Story. This is a simple short story about a little girl called Sophie who is at the stage of her development where she is moving from the security of her cot to a very big bed. The only problem is that she loves her cot, she obviously has the familiarity and security of her belongings in the cot, her blanket, pillow and toys and makes excuses using her toys to stay in her cot. My opinion. I think this is a simple story that shows the anxieties that children go through during the move from their cot to a bed. The illustrations use bright colours and show Sophie?s expressions of worry and joy very clearly...

colliedog2 21.08.2009 · Read review
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Shopaholic and Baby - Another great Sophie Kinsella Book

Advantages: Fun story, good characters
Disadvantages: I read it way too quick

...Those of you that have read a few of my reviews may have seen my reviews for another of the books in this series. For those who haven't read any I will give you a quick rundown of what has happened so far. This book is the latest in a series of books by Sophie Kinsella. The books are in the chick lit genre and are all based around a shopaholic called Becky. The books follow her story as she fights with her urges to shop while she has many big events in her life happen including meeting her husband Luke, moving to New York and meeting her sister she never knew she had. In the last book right at the end we find out Becky is pregnant. How is this shopaholic going to cope with being pregnant and having a baby. This is a very exciting time for Becky and she cannot wait for the baby to arrive. The best bit about having a baby... she can...

wendz86 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Twenty something..Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

Advantages: Fantastic read that had me absorbed
Disadvantages: Only when I ran out of pages!

...Now I don't normally write reviews on books so bare with me! I am a big fan of Sophie Kinsella, especially her creation of Becky Bloomwood and the Shopaholic books. I read most of the shopaholic series first so when her book Can You Keep A Secret? came out in between the shopaholic titles I was really looking forward to reading it. I was quite disappointed though and simply couldn't get into it. When Kinsella wrote other books that didn't feature my favourite spending queen Becky I was wary of wanting to read them, fearing I would be disappointed again (Remember Me? and The Undomestic Goddess)..I wasn't - and thoroughly enjoyed both books, so when I read that there was a new book out by Kinsella I was eager to read it. Now having first read a few reviews about it it really didn't seem like my kind of book at all. It was a ghost story...

supersonic75 15.09.2009 · Read review
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The Bimbo & The Bump (Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella)

Advantages: fun, fun, fun
Disadvantages: more frothy than a Lush bath

...Sophie Kinsella is undoubtedly one of the queens of chick-lit, and deservedly so. Her Shopaholic cycle is extremely popular, and while her other efforts (Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep a Secret?) had mixed reception, Shopaholic continues to delight. For the uninitiated, the Shopaholic in question is Becky Bloomwood, a creation of genius that narrates the books and gives them their unique flavour. Unlike other chick-lit heroines, Becky is not riddled with insecurities and neuroses but almost eternally chirpy, optimistic and cheerful. She has a slight spending problem, but as she gets conveniently married to a Very Rich (but also Very Loving) man earlier on in the cycle, she never gets into real financial trouble and can indulge in her consumerist binges to her (and readers') heart content. She is, essentially, a shallow...

magdadh 18.04.2009 · Read review
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